Keep checking back as we update from on the ground.
(Lindelofs current show he co-created with Tara Hernandez, PeacocksMrs.
Davis, centers on an evil AI.)
WGA Strike in New York.Dade Hayes
So I dont think its unreasonable to get some language of understanding.
The picket lines in New York for thePeacockNewfront ended for the day around 6:30pm ET.
The Simpsonsshowrunner Al Jean told Deadline all writers are in the same boat.
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I think its all designed to get more work for less money, writing things for free.
Well hold out until we get whats fair to the average writer, no matter what, he said.
That hits right away.
Thats just what happens when writers cant write words to appear on television and film.
We came to negotiate in good faith.
We want our membership to get back to work.
We are not trying to be out on the streets of New York screaming at a bank forever.
Because that is where the industry is going, has gone for the past few years.
Its an existential fight for writing as a career, they said.
Its breaking the old model for the TV writers room, where you have writers writing during production.
That is not a way to have a career.
This is what they want, to turn the economy into a gig economy.
It will be Uber for everything.
Protesters walked all the way from the studio entrance to the Culver Steps and back.
Chants had a lot to do with Amazon/Alexa, including Alexa, pay us.
One sign even said, I Bought Your Tesla.
The issues are far more clearer: Its all about revenue.
2007 was about jurisdiction which is harder to explain.
And it feels like to me that the system hasnt changed with streaming.
This is going to be a long haul, the writer said.
Were only as good as the writing we get, Lowe said.
There were lots of honks of support from cars driving down Culver Boulevard past the Motor Avenue gate.
Pay your writers like you should as the group picketed at the main gate on Van Ness Avenue.
It then marched around to Gower Street.
He said he didnt think there was going to be a strike this year.
The tone and the tenor of everything was incredibly different in 2007.
It really felt like a collision with an iceberg.
This did not feel inevitable.
I didnt think we had to be here.
I didnt think this had to come to a strike.
Complete failure to engage.
I felt like all bets were off.
If thats really how they want that go, thats how they want to go.
I dont think that was the case in 07.
This year has been flawless.
WHY I’M STRIKING: Were proud to be members of the WGA.
We love our health insurance.
Highlight: protesters were singing Baby I Want My Money to the tune of the Ol Dirty Bastard song.
AtCBS Television Cityon Fairfax Avenue and Melrose Avenue,Powercreator Courtney Kemp was among the protesters.
Another picketer: Justine Bateman.
Among the strikers was longtime sitcom writer Jeffrey Richman, a six-time Emmy winner whose credits includeModern FamilyandFrasier.
Hes been through three strikes: the one in 1981, the one in 07, and this one.
Hes currently working on the second season ofUncoupled, which moved to Showtime from Netflix.
I come from literally 40 years of data pipe television.
Im now on a streaming show I dont know how writers make a living.
I made my living so I can afford to do eight episodes onUncoupled.
And you learned how to produce television.
You were on sets and you were involved in casting.
None of that exists for writers now.
Theres no middle class of writers.
Theres zero middle class.
So Im not striking for me, its for everybody that cant get a job.
and chanted along with prompts from a bullhorn: What do we want?
When do we want it?
If we dont get it / shut it down!
Kushner told Deadline he was ready for a lengthy battle with the AMPTP.
